Dee-Nee Qualifier today!

[Lips]

POTS IN IN THE TOURNEY!!!!  If Mark wins his next game against Cratty, he's in.  If Mark loses, Jason and Mark have to play a 1-game playoff for the final dee-nee tourney entry.

Jason (Bo) - 11, 8 homers
Pots (Dt) 14, 13 homers

Standings:
Pots (5-1), 101 runs, 49 innings
Mark (3-2), 61 runs, 39 innings
Jason (3-3), 98 runs, 40 innings
Cratty (0-5), 33 runs, 32 innings

[Lips]

MARK IS IN THE TOURNEY!!!!  4 innings.

Mark (Ca) - 14, 4 homers
Cratty (Det) - 2, 1 homer

Standings:
Pots (5-1), 101 runs, 49 innings
Mark (4-2), 75 runs, 43 innings
Jason (3-3), 98 runs, 40 innings
Cratty (0-6), 35 runs, 36 innings

[Sperling]

I'm in....I'm rusty, but I'm in.

Who knows how the tourney will go next week.  Lips is going to have a hard time repeating, since nobody has ever won back-to-back tournaments.

[Vitb6]

Well there is officially a glitch in the system.  I did not qualify for the tourney yet outscoring everyone in the least amount of innings (Potsie had 3 more runs in 9 more innings).  Outscoring Mark by 23 runs in 3 LESS innings and not making the tourney is an absolute killer.  I had 3 bad innings the entire tourney, giving up 10 runs to Stehling, 9 runs to Potsie and 8 runs to Potsie.  The kicker is that out of the 27 runs scored against me in those 3 innings- I would estimate that 21 of them were homers.  It was utterly ridiculous, but playing straight pitch nothing I could do.  My inexperience shined when it took me 3 innings to figure out how to hit Hurst with my lefty lineup of Detroit, after scoring 9 runs in 3 innings off of Clemens prior.  I don't even want to talk about the let down in game 1 against Stehling.  

The downside to this qualifier is that the 4th participant (Cratty) is absolutely terrible (I don't think he reads the forums *crosses fingers*).  He had no legit shot at all.  I'm not trying to knock Cratty at all, but when the guy you need to get a 1 win, has no shot whatsoever, it becoms pointless.  So basically Potsie played a shitty game against Stehling and played the best game of his life with Boston against me and therefore I lose.  I know I just had to win 1 game against Potsie to advance, but when one person stands no chance whatesoever, what is the point of having them in the tourney.  I didn't realize that he was that bad.  Next time, we find someone that has a fighting chance or just do a 3 man tourney, where RPI from the first 2 games gets pick of team in the 3rd game between those teams.  

Ok, I'm done ranting.  But I'm telling you.  When you have the best tourney and lose...it is NOT a good feeling.

It's a good thing that I don't have an anger management problem!

[Gantry]

Jason was playing a fine tourney, but you have to win the games.   Not finishing up Mark in game one came back to haunt him...

[doveRBI]

Thanks for the reset guys.  Truly classic material.

[GDavis]

Great recap guys.  Classic Vitb rant at the end, even if it didn't make much sense.

[BDawk]

Great recap. I felt lik I was there. I knew Vit wouldn't go down without selling us on why he should be in.